Puts the emphasis on conceptual questions: Why is there no such
thing as absolute motion? What is the physical meaning of
relativity of simultaneity? But, the most important question that
is addressed in this book is "what is the nature of spacetime?" or,
equivalently, "what is the dimensionality of the world at the
macroscopic level?"
Develops answers to these questions via a thorough analysis of
relativistic effects and explicitly asking whether the objects
involved in those effects are three-dimensional or
four-dimensional.
Discusses the implication of the result (this analysis clearly
shows that if the world and the physical objects were
three-dimensional, none of the kinematic relativistic effects and
the experimental evidence supporting them would be possible) for
physics, philosophy, and our entire world view are discussed.
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